More Games

Ok, so I am almost, but not quite, done with my DungeonQuest task. I have 90 more pieces to put together. That sounds like a lot, however, the game contains over 364 pieces! I will be done with the construction soon.

If I like the game, I will build the expansion sets for it. I hope it is fun, after all of this work!

Today on Tanga there is a deal that I would love. The world of warcraft board game plus two expansion sets.

I know Siew'll be like "WHAT!?" when she reads this. I am not going to buy it. I cannot. However, I would LIKE to. That's different.

Here in Malaysia the base WoW game costs almost 400 Ringgit. The expansion included in that deal would cost 200 each, or more. The converted price for that deal is 195 Ringgit. . . That's an eighth or so of the price that I'd have to pay here.

What a deal.

Oh well, I can keep dreaming. It's not like I have anyone to play those games with me at home at the moment. :-)

Board/bored games

Recently, since coming to Malaysia basically, I have been wanting to play boardgames. I think part of this is a lack of social interaction in my life. Anyway, I usually drive Siew nuts wanting to look at boardgames.

I have seen some awesome looking boardgames at a few different stores, with some not so awesome prices.

Games like Doom, Runebound, Runewars, Starcraft, Warcraft, Claustrophobia, AT-43, Warhammer, Heroscape, and etc..

These games all range in price from 140 to 400 ringgit. . . that's a lot of money for a game!

To help counter this, I can, and have, print games out on the laser printer, mount them to cardboard, cut them out and tape the edges. This is a time consuming process. Very time consuming in some cases.

Example: Dungeonquest



This game seems interesting. You can have up to four players who compete to get to the dragon's treasure, steal some, and get out of the dungeon alive. From what I have read, this is a tough game.

I am currently building this game. I have completed several parts of the game, but not all of it. There are over 350 pieces to get ready for this, without the expansions.

Some people have been kind enough to put up really damned good scans of the tiles used in the game on BGG. This game, in this incarnation, is out of print. There is a newer one by Fantasy Flight games, but I have read not much good about it, and it is not available here.

It has taken weeks of working on pieces in my spare time at work to get about half-way done with the base set of this game. It is actually a lot of fun for me to think of ways to put things together to make them durable and attractive. It has become something of a hobby for me to construct board games.

Later, I will take a picture of the completed game and post it up here.

I also, bad of me, bought Heroscape: Battle for the Underdark recently. I had never tried Heroscape before. I like the idea of having a bunch of tiles to configure into different maps. It's kind of like Legos meets wargaming-light. There are nice looking miniatures included that will make for some fun play, solo or with a friend, if I had one that is.

Later Felix and I will have a lot of fun playing games. Siew can sometimes be persuaded to play, but she is not into games as much as I am.

Monster!

Today we went to Sunway Giza to meet a couple of friends of Siew's. We met them there and had some food at a place called Full House.

There were two friends of Siew's there. One has met Felix before. The other had not met him. She was very eager to make his acquaintance.

She had a lot of fun talking to him and holding him. She gave him a pair of small shoes and a bib that has something funny written on it:

"Handsome: like my daddy"

Later, I took Felix to walk around and look at a few things so Siew and her friends could have a nice time chatting.

I found that I needed to use the toilet. I took Felix back to Siew and then found a toilet. After that, I went back to the group. They were getting ready to leave so we all left. Siew and I walked around a bit and I found a great deal on some vitamins that I usually take. Then, in Village Market, I found something really amazing:



I have not seen American energy drinks in more than 2 years! I was so shocked. I was more shocked by the price. Each of the items here are 9.90 Ringgit! That's a lot for this type of thing. But, I have really been wanting to drink energy drinks, real ones, not the crappy types they sell here! I bought 2.

Here are 2 pictures of one of the drinks. I managed to drop the other can so it is very mangled, but I am going to save the nice can just for the hell of it.






It was nice to have this, but this is not something that is going to become a habit. Not at that price. Granted, it is cheaper then Starbucks or Coffee Bean, other places I pretty much never go to as well! Maybe, MAYBE, if they keep stock, I will indulge myself in a Monster one or two times per year.